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Re:The War on General Purpose Computing by fallingknife on Sunday December 04, 2022 @02:07PM (#33856606)
Users don't see that stuff unless they want to. Advertisers don't care unless their ads appear next to it. And these platforms have pretty much solved this. E.g. Google search results contain the full cesspit of the internet, yet everyone advertises with Google.

The issue came when the news media decided that it was newsworthy that undesirables we're saying undesirable things on social media and blamed the platform as a whole. Now it's a pr issue for advertisers to be on the platform at all whether or not they are adjacent to undesirable content.

Re:The War on General Purpose Computing by kelnos on Sunday December 04, 2022 @02:40PM (#33856965)
I think the people who get harassed on Twitter, and have to spend a significant amount of their Twitter-using time dealing with that, would disagree with you.
Re:The War on General Purpose Computing by fallingknife on Sunday December 04, 2022 @03:16PM (#33857392)
Seems like this is solved by the block button.
Re:The War on General Purpose Computing by themacguffinman on Sunday December 04, 2022 @03:32PM (#33857559)
If I have to block a lot of people I might as well block Twitter.